R.S- A Nation Divided

By RebeccaSilva
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    Civil War Era

  • J.E.B Stuart

    U.S army officer from Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Fights in the Kansas Territory between anti-slavery and pro-slavery

  • Robert E. Lee

    Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his personal desire for the Union to stay intact and despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had offered Lee command of a Union Army.

  • Reconstruction Era

    Rebuilding the South after the Union Victory

  • Siege of Vicksburg

    The final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

  • Pickett's Charge

    Assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge

  • Freedman Bureau

    Aided freed slaves

  • Jim Crow Laws

    They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.